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4/14/2008

In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Institute for the Medical Humanities (IMH) and the 20th anniversary of its Medical Humanities Graduate Program, the IMH hosted a conference on Graduate Education in Medical Humanities: Models and Methods, March 6-9, 2008, Galveston, Texas.

Since its founding in 1973, the IMH has brought together historians, philosophers, and scholars in literature, religious studies, jurisprudence, and other humanities disciplines to offer their perspectives on health, illness, and related topics. In 1988, the graduate program at the IMH was authorized to offer the United States' first M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in the medical humanities. Two decades later, the IMH is still one of the very few programs in the United States to offer advanced degrees in the medical humanities and is the only one to offer a Ph.D. in medical humanities.

This conference provided a rare opportunity for faculty, administrators, and students of such programs throughout the world to come together to investigate the questions that characterize this evolving field of graduate education; to discuss their work; and to share models and methods of successful programs.

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